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mediaconch(1)

mediaconch1

Implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files mediainfo-gui - implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files (graphical utility)

Overview

MediaConch is an extensible, open source software project consisting of an implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer that targets preservation-level audiovisual files (specifically Matroska, Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM) and FF Video Codec 1 (FFV1)) for use in memory institutions, providing detailed and batch-level conformance checking via an adaptable and flexible application program interface accessible by the command line, a graphical user interface, or a web-based shell.

Options

MediaInfo supports the following case-insensitive options:

--Help, -h

Display help and exit

--Help=Advanced, -ha

Display the advanced help and exit

Reporting Elements

--Mediaconch, -mc

Output MediaConch report (default)

(MediaConch contains default verbosity of implementationChecks plus any provided policy checks.)

--Mediainfo, -mi

Output MediaInfo report

--Mediatrace, -mt

Output a trace of the file

Policy Checker

--Policy=PolicyFileName, -p PolicyFileName

Apply the policy (XSL or Schematron)

Output Formats

--Format=text, -ft

Output in Text format (default)

--Format=xml, -fx

Output in MediaInfo/MediaConch/MediaTrace XML format (changed to -fa if there are more than 1 tool or more than 1 file)

--Format=maxml, -fa

Output in MediaArea XML format

--Format=html, -fh

Output MediaConch report in HTML format

--Display=DisplayFileName, -d DisplayFileName

Apply the display transformation (XSL)

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

Author

This manual page was written by Chow Loong Jin <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permissions is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, or the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

From mediaconch 25.04-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.